Tuesday, December 20, 2016

What is the definition of heaven from the catechism in light of the consummation of the human experience that is depicted and discussed in the...

The exact
nature of heaven is never described in the catechism. However, the text does stress that the
redeemed will "'see him [God] as he is,' face to face."

This
connects with the primary theme of The Cloud of Unknowing, which says that
God is ultimately indescribable. As the text says in the sixth chapter:


For of all other creatures and their works, yea, and of the works of
God's self, may a man through grace have full head of knowing, and well he can think of them:
but of God Himself can no man think.

And therefore I would leave all that
thing that I can think, and choose to my love that thing that I cannot think. For why; He may
well be loved, but not thought. By love may He be...





href="http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/SpiritualFormation/Texts/TheCloudOfUnknowing.pdf">http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/bi/ted_hildebrandt/Spiritual...
href="http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P2M.HTM">http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P2M.HTM
href="https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf102.iv.XXII.29.html">https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf102.iv.XXII.29.html

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